The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-02
Labor Notes.

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Labor Notes
Philadelphia Record.
Doctor McGlynn is a delegate to the Syracuse
IN. Y. labor convention.
A new railroad town is to be built between
New Haven and Hartford.
A Spanish railroad company has just ordered
~, O0O tons of English rails
Aug. 81 is to be labor day at Wheeling.
Henry George will be there.
A new Bessemer plant is about to be COM
plete6 at Belle Isle. near Richmond.
The stone-cutters between Detroit and Omaha
propose to form q national assembly.
The Central Labor Union of New York has
arranged for a celebration on Sept. 8.
One hundred delegates represented the Con
necticut Knights at Waterbury last week.
There are three successful cooperative con-
Germs in New York with capital of $780, 900.
The boycott against the American Tack Com
pany in Fairhaven, Mass, is to be continued.
A Connecticut mechanic expects TO soon have
on the market steam one horse power tricycle.
Boot and shoe manufacturers in New York
to be held to strict accountability of the
law.
ing forwarded from factories to mills East and
South.
The South baltimore Car Company will erect
hundred houses with corrugated roofs for Its
employees.
good many Northern coal miners are going
South in the hopes of obtaining steadier
ploym.nt.
It is expected there will be 800 delegates at
the knights of Labor convention In Minneapo-
lis in October.
There are Z, SOC convicrs in the United States
who turn out a little $40, 600. 900 worth of
shoes per year.
Great coal developments are being made on
the Pacific coast, and large vessel contracts have
Z been givea out
San Francisco is to be connected with the
Crystrl Springs water supply with a line taking
5, 600 tons of pipe.
There are Indications that the extremists
among the Knights will gain control in the next
national convention.
The Pennsylvania Steel Companys steam
power for it's two furnaces at Sparrow Point will
be 900 horse power
The sixth annual session of the State Work
inemen's Assembly of New York will be held at
Rochester on September g.
A Southern railroad company has just
tracted for an equipment of locomotives to
weigh forty eight tons each.
Foreign silk manufacturers report improv-
ing demand in all markets. Silks and satins
being contracted for far ahead.
Threefourths of the deposisors in New Eng
lands savings banks are wage-workers and their
average deposits are 1856 per year.
Domestic consumers of natural gas paw 10
per cent less than coal COSTS and manufacturers
% per cent. less in New York State.
Canals are being built in England to enable
interior manufacturers reach the seaport at
less cost than is now possible by rail-
The visible supply of cotton is the same as it
was this time last year, and manufacturers are
cautious about anticipating requirements.
Pittsburg has eiehty-six more puddling fur
than it had a year ago. There about
4, 900 men waiting for work about the mills.
Valuable coal mines are being opened in Vir-
GINA. One property shows four workable veins
aggregating thickness of twenty seven feet
A Philadelphia company has large force of
workmen at Center Point, Ark, running
chinery day and night, smelling and reducing
Fifteen hundred 1ongshoremen have notified
their employers that they will strike
less wages shall be restored to 80 cents an
hour.
The largest paper-rnilI order ever given out
has just been taken by Wilmington machinery
making concern, and is for four mills at Palmer,
n. Y.
Within few months the capacity of the ma
chine-shops of Bridgeport Conn, will be suhi-
GENTLY increased to allow 600 more hands to be
employed.
A factory has been started in Pawtucket to
make Canton mating the same on both sides,
it is made in China. Each loom weaves thirty
yards day.
The fraudulent imitation of trademarks has
gone so far that the British Parliament is about
to take summary measures to root it out by in-
posing severe penalties
Wilmington car-whee1 company recently
bought 400 acres of land in Virginia. containing
coal and lead, which experts estimate worth
$3.50. 900. It cost S.. 000
A rumor is rife that gigantic coal pool is
about to be formed to mine coal in the rich coal
field bounded by the Youghlogheny and Monon-
gahela rivers in western Pennsylvania
The coal operators in several of the Western
States are endeavoring to force their workInen
to sign a contract waving the benefit of the
bi monthly payments demanded by law.
An Indian railway company has ordered 250,-
900 iron telegraph poles inches in diameter at
the bottom aud q inch at the top TO be made in
halves and screwed together with fanges.
Foreign iron. steel and machinery makers
beginning to feel the swelling tide of trade,
especially from the United States; yet the bulk
of colonial tool orders come to the United
States. arE
Large rolling mills, blast furnaces and -four
ing mills are to be built at Padncah Ky.
bridge spans the Ohio at that point and there
are inexhaustibie supplies of COAL iron and
timber.
A European conference is soon to be held to
take some action to protect British trade from
foreign com petition. The British manufacturers
have been working this matter up for twelve
months.
Foreign locomotive makers have so success
ports for eleven months ended June were only
81 against 81 for the same time the previous
fiscal year.
All the indications in the boot and shoe trade
show that the aggregate traffic VIII be OF unpre-
cedented magnitude. In Worcester county,
Mass, the boot and shoe dehelt up to June l
amounted to 100. 900 cases.
and common. will be generally employed
than it was last winter account Of the large
amount of railroad construction to be completed
in the South aud Southwest, and bridge con-